“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Sometimes I miss my family badly. In those weak moments, books come to my rescue because they help me think differently. — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If I were a cop, and I caught a criminal, I’d throw the book at them. A heavy book, like an unabridged… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something… My theory is a children's book... can be just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing -… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine,… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous. — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
“Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...” — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“If you have left the real world and entered an imaginary one. Thank the author, that showed you the way. Please leave… — Erik Dean Copy Share Image
“A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
